Education
BY BRITTANY ANDERSON
Education Edition
2025
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Education Edition! As students head back to school, we’re taking a look at some of the top issues facing districts in the Lake Travis-Westlake area. For our lead story this month, Reporter Brittany Anderson and I took a deep dive into some of the issues facing Eanes, Lake Travis and Leander ISDs. In light of declining enrollment projections, all three districts are weighing options for existing and future facilities. In terms of regional updates, Reporter Anna Maness explored the expansion of an enhanced active shooter response training facility in San Marcos. Known as the Advanced Law Enforcement Response Training Center, the program has dozens of partnerships with various law enforcement agencies to provide active shooter training. Statewide, Reporter Hannah Norton outlined major changes both to school funding and several newly-passed education laws that will affect public school students. As always, we hope you find this special edition useful, and thank you for reading.
What's inside
Find out more about updates to a regional active shooter training facility (Page 17)
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See how recent state changes will impact public school finance (Page 18)
Learn more about challenges in Eanes, Lake Travis and Leander ISDs (Pages 25, 27 and 29)
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Eanes ISD renovates The Learning Center, administration building
What to expect
EISD’s administration building is moving down the street and is expected to be complete by mid-September, according to district officials. The $9.6 million project includes the purchase and renovation of the building, which was a commercial property. Funds from the 2019 and 2023 bonds paid for the renovations, officials said, while the building purchase was from “previous land sales” designated by the board in 2015 to be used for capital improvement projects. Along with a new board meeting room, the building will house the business services, communications, human resources, legal, rentals, superintendent office and teaching and learning departments. The building has also been updated to meet ADA-compliance standards in its parking lot and sidewalks, and will include an elevator, EISD officials said.
Eanes ISD’s alternative high school program and administrative departments are finding new homes, thanks to renovation projects funded by two of the district’s bonds. The Learning Center is EISD’s by-choice alternative schooling program for 11th and 12th grade Westlake High School students. The center was previously located in a building on the WHS campus, but renovated and moved into the now-former EISD administration building at the start of the 2025-26 school year. The $2.2 million renovation was funded by the 2023 bond and features eight subject- specific classrooms, a collaborative “maker space,” a community room and offices.
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Administration and board building (new location)
The Learning Center (previously administration and board building)
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According to district officials, the center’s former building will now house WHS’ health services program, which will be moved over winter break.
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